Between the 4th and 6th of September, 2024, several Siglum members took part in a conference ‘Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter, which focused on the current research into a long-lost medieval psalter from England. In this ongoing project, we have been looking for answers to the oldest questions of philology which center around the proper arrangement and content of a text and also the historical development of language. To do this, we have been aided by state-of-the-art research methods which include digital reconstruction as well as physical and chemical analyses of ink, pigments and parchment. Research […]
A webinar on the themes of Chaucer Here and Now will take place on Thursday 14 March 2024 at 5pm–6pm GMT (6pm-7pm CET) via Zoom. Professor Marion Turner will talk about manuscripts and printed books from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first and discuss some of the ways in which readers of Chaucer have responded to and reimagined Chaucer’s works. The webinar will feature some of the Bodleian’s treasures shown under the visualiser. This event takes place online via Zoom. Tickets are free, and booking is required via Bodleian Library events.